Rangaunu Bay on the Karekare Peninsula, visited by the French explorer Surville aboard the St Jean Baptiste in 1769-70. Shipboard logs record the saddleback, tui, and pohutukawa. The expedition gifted to Maori, pairs of fowls and pigs, but abducted a young chief who died at sea.
GORDON ELL, BUSH FILMS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 297, 1 August 2000, Page 28
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50Rangaunu Bay on the Karekare Peninsula, visited by the French explorer Surville aboard the St Jean Baptiste in 1769-70. Shipboard logs record the saddleback, tui, and pohutukawa. The expedition gifted to Maori, pairs of fowls and pigs, but abducted a young chief who died at sea. GORDON ELL, BUSH FILMS Forest and Bird, Issue 297, 1 August 2000, Page 28
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